A Familiar Cycle

May 21, 2023

A Familiar Cycle

Judges 2.6-19 CSB

Outline:

Context of Conquest and Settlement

  • Joshua 23.12-13

Judges 2.6-10

A sobering thought that one generation or two is all it takes…

Judges 2.11-13

  • Every turning away is a turning toward.

  • Baal and Ashtoreth: Canaanite deities

  • Massive distinction between the God we worship and those of other religions: wanting from vs. wanting for

Judges 2.14-15

  • God protects you when in danger and pursues you in disobedience.

 

Judges 2.16-17

  • God’s provision was in the judges.
  • Judges functioned as mediators of justice; settled conflict via war and aggression.

 

Judges 2.18

  • Israel groaned: sometimes verbal, but every time miserable.
  • Sin always produces suffering.

 

Judges 2.19

  • An eerily familiar cycle

 

Individual, relational, and generational applications:

 

 

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